Brie Larson reveals the hardest part about becoming suddenly very famous

Fame certainly has its
perks. You get a lot of things for free. You pretty much never
have to wait in line for anything. Making money becomes much
easier. But there are some negatives. The most obvious is the
loss of anonymity.

Brie Larson admits that that's the biggest thing she's tried to
wrap her head around since becoming a bone fide celebrity after
winning the Oscar for best actress for 2015's "Room."

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"I don't think I'll ever be able to grasp this - I just don't
really understand why anybody would care what I have to say,"
Larson told Business Insider while doing press for her new movie
"Free Fire" (opening Friday). "I'm just a person figuring stuff
out. That's the thing I trip out on all the time when I do days
and days of press and you're like, 'Who cares what I think?'"

But people care very much. And Larson has turned that into a
positive force. She's used her platform to be vocal about issues
that are important to her like support for sexual-assault victims
and giving women and minorities stronger voices in Hollywood.

Her visibility will only increase in the coming years as we near
the 2019 release of Marvel Studios' first movie with a female
lead, "Captain Marvel." Larson will be our Captain Marvel.

But there is one thing from her old life she can still do.

"One of my favorite things in the world is just to people-watch
and to listen," Larson said.

There are moments when she can go out in public and not be
recognized.

"And I'm very paranoid about my privacy so I would be the first
to tell you if it's all gone. It's not. I'm grateful for that,"
Larson said.